Daily Event for February 14, 2012

Built at Schichau in Danzig, launched on Dec. 12, 1942 and commissioned on Feb. 20, 1943 the type VIIc U-boat, U-738 would never see war service. On February 14, 1944, a few days short of a year after she was commissioned, the boat was in the Baltic on a training exercise when she was rammed by SS Erna off off Gotenhafen (Gdynia), Poland. Twenty-two men, including her commanding officer were lost. Twenty-four men survived. The boat was raised on Mar. 3, 1944 and scrapped.

This was not the only such loss in the Baltic suffered by the U-boat arm during the war, U-7 sank in a diving accident on Feb. 28, 1944 with all hands. On Mar. 17, 1944 U-286 and U-1013 collided east of Rügen Island and sank, only U-286 returned to service. On the same day U-28 sank at the pier, it was raised and scrapped.
© 2012 Michael W. Pocock
MaritimeQuest.com



Gedenktafel
In Erinnerung an die gefallenen Besatzungsmitglieder der U-738
"In memory of the fallen crewmen of U-738"

Name
Rate
Buban, Karl
Maschinenobergefreiter
Eberhardt, Albin
Matrosenobergefreiter
Fiedler, Günter
Matrosenobergefreiter
Fredenhagen, Werner
Bootsmannmaat
Freudenthal, Karl
Matrosenobergefreiter
Grünhoff, Willi
Maschinenobergefreiter
Handlos, Karl
Funkobergefreiter d.R.
Hellmann, Waldemar
Funkmaat
Hoffmann, Erich-Michael
Oberleutnant zur See
Commanding Officer
Höppel, Harro
Oberfähnrich zur See
Jahnke, Alfred
Mechanikersobergefreiter
Korbel, Adolf
Bootsmannmaat
Kurrle, Gerhard
Oberfähnrich (ing)
Lehnert, Heinrich
Matrosenobergefreiter
May, Walter
Maschinenmaat
Pochert, Gerhard
Matrosenobergefreiter
Rausch, Hans
Maschinenmaat
Stiefeling, Günter
Maschinenobergefreiter
Stulz, Werner
Funkobergefreiter
Syperek, Paul
Maschinenobergefreiter
Thoss, Karl
Maschinenobergefreiter
Triffterer, Franz
Maschinenobergefreiter


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